See what people are building with AI — without reading the code.

How projects are picked

Every project is credited to its creator, with a link to their profile. Creators can ask for changes or removal anytime.

1. Trending lists first. Every day we check GitHub’s weekly trending list and Hugging Face’s trending models and apps. The latest refresh was on 8 November 2026 and brought in 74 projects you see under “Rising this week”, “Start here” and the story sections.
2. Then an editor translates. A person writes the plain-language copy — what each project does, a few things you could use it for, what you’d need — from what the creator published. They also pick a handful to show first, and hand-pick a few more to add between refreshes — most recently 17 projects on 25 September 2026.
3. Numbers are frozen in time. Stars, likes and downloads are the ones recorded when each project was last checked. They are not live, and each card says when they were taken.

BuildTube has not run or verified these projects. Everything on a card is written from what its creator published. A “Try it” button opens the creator’s own demo on their site; treat it like any other link to someone else’s work.

What the labels mean

New

Added by a BuildTube editor between refreshes (most recently on 25 September 2026), and checked by hand that day.

Rising

“One of the fastest-rising” marks the projects that gained the most attention in the week before the latest refresh: new stars on GitHub, or likes and downloads on Hugging Face. “Rising this week” is the section holding everything else that was trending.

Emerging

Early projects, often only days old and with small numbers, that an editor thinks are worth a closer look. They are illustrative picks, not a ranking or a prediction.

Try it in your browser

The creator, or Hugging Face on their behalf, runs a live demo you can open without installing anything. It opens on their site, not on BuildTube.

Is this your project?

If you made something shown here and want a description corrected, a picture swapped, or the card taken down, tell us. Use the feedback form’s creator option with a link to your project and what you’d like changed. We act on creator requests within a few days, and removal requests are honoured without argument.

Ask for a change or removal

Privacy

• No accounts and no cookies. There is nothing to sign up for, and BuildTube sets no cookies.
• Saves stay in your browser. When you save a card it is kept in this browser’s own storage on your device. We never receive it, and clearing your browser data removes it.
• The feedback form stores only what you type, plus the time and which BuildTube page you were on. Your email is optional and used only to reply to you. We don’t store your IP address or browser details with it.
• Anonymous counters. When you open a card, arrive at one from a BuildTube link on X, press “Try it now”, save a card, pick an “I want to…” filter, search, or open the feedback form, the site adds one to a daily tally for that card or filter. A search that finds nothing is tallied too, so we can see when the site is missing something people look for. There is no cookie or ID, nothing ties the tallies to you, and the words you search for are never sent. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is counted.
• The visitor counter (how many people have BuildTube open, and total views) works from a random ID that each open tab makes in memory and forgets when you close or reload it, with no cookies and no IP address stored. The total includes views counted before tracking moved to Cloudflare. The counts are shown at the top of the page only once they are big enough to mean something.
• Pictures load from their creators’ hosts. Screenshots and profile pictures come straight from GitHub and Hugging Face, so those services see an ordinary request from your browser, as they would on their own sites.
• Hosting. The site is served by Cloudflare, which handles the connection like any web host.